Now, to be fair, most of the vaccines in question have had that mercury removed, but still. The notion of blindly trusting big pharm companies makes me a little nervous to say the least.
You're right about not trusting corp's to do anything but make money. And don't be so sure about those vaccines being mercury free: http://www.whale.to/a/mercury7.html
---- During an investigation into the mercury issue, HAPI learned that Thimerosal, a 50% mercury compound, is still being used to produce most vaccines and that the manufacturers are simply "filtering it out" of the final product. However, according to Boyd Haley, PhD, Chemistry Department Chair, University of Kentucky, mercury binds to the antigenic protein in the vaccine and cannot be completely, 100% filtered out.
All four vaccine vials tested contained mercury despite manufacturer claims that two of the vials were completely mercury free. All four vials also contained aluminum, one nine times more than the other three, which tremendously enhances the toxicity of mercury causing neuronal death in the brain.
An article in the March 10, 2006 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35%.
Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood NDs, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives. Authors David A. Geier, B.A. and Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D. analyze data from the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) in "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines."
The numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have skyrocketed to more than 1000 by the beginning of 2006. But in fact, the Geiers report that the number actually went down to only 620, a real decrease of 22%, and a decrease from the projections of 35%.
This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the CDC.
Google amish autism. There are a few Amish with autism. They have either been vaccinated or have elevated levels of mercury presumably from an environmental exposure. I am not against vaccination but facts like these carry more weight than "scientific" studies that are funded or at least influenced by drug companies. The difference is Science for profit vs Science for knowledge.
What I want to know is why can't you have lego everything? House, furniture, computer. It could all fit together and be the ultimate in reconfigurability. Imagine using this for cubicles!!
I'm glad they chose IBM to go after. IBM has the resources to defend against this shite. They could have knocked out half a dozen distros just filing the complaint. Thanks, IBM.
I fixed this on my XP home sp2 machine by deleting iexplorer.exe and quickly creating a folder named iexplorer.exe in it's place so Ms can't replace it.
Worked for me, no more popups, and if I want IE, I run it from the backup file.
we had what was called lunch tickets. You paid for a week, or got free luches from the state, and it got you a lunch based on the 4 food groups. If you wanted to buy extras, you paid cash. Now my kids get an account that I have to put money in and they can choose what to buy (mostly french fries because mmost cafeteria food is gross). I don't want to pay $3 for french fries and a sports drink formy kids, I want to buy them a lunch and they can choose what to eat. I think it's just scam to make money for the school. Last year, I got fed up and we bagged lunches. Also, when I was a kid, there was no junk food or soda in school. About 10 years ago, pepsi/coke/et al started making sweet deals with schools to put pop machines in the lunch rooms. Now the school oficials are finally waking up to the fact that kids will eat junk if it's around. Duhhh! Also, I think the recent obesity epidemic in the US, is caused or at least helped by the massive addition of high fructose corn sweetener introduced in almost all mass produced food. This cheapest of the cheap simple sugar (I'm speculating) spikes blood sugar then insulin levels causing low blood sugar and more eating.
Since the rdesign a few months back, the slashdot sight renders slowly, usually requiring multiple refreshes. This happens to me on XP, Mac, but not on Linux. Camino on OSX also doesn't show this. Anyone else notice this?
Pioneer 10 + 11 space missions: $500 million Ancient 7- and 9-track magnetic tapes: $20 on ebay Anomolies leading to the solution of the grand unified theory: Priceless!
I buy most of my DVDs used from CD warehouse. Mostly, I scan the bargain bins and pick out one or two that look interesting based on a few seconds evaluation. When I want to watch something at home, I look through my collection. The best is finding a decent movie I didn't know I had. My collection is diverse and full of lots of surprises (and duds). This bittorrent thing looks good too though, as soon as I upgrade my 486, I'm going to have to try that out.
What if Apple made the mini with a no video card option, and there was an OS that would cluster these automatically? Does ClusterKnoppix do this yet? You could buy another one whenever you ran out of disk space and add processing power also. Just a thought.
The coolest solution I've seen is the Bithead portable headphone amplifier and USB audio
device: http://tinyurl.com/5293w/ It's got hi end D/A converters, audiophile parts thoughout, and goes for about $270.
I want one, but I'm going the cheaper route: a $5 sound card with SPDIF output and an outboard D/A decoder that I have lying around.
Grab a D/A on ebay: http://tinyurl.com/4nsws/
The Audio Alchemy units are great for the price!
The airport express solution from apple is also worth looking into: http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
The only way that Enterprise can prevent itself from being an abomination to the Trek universe that came before it, is to have the Enterprise (especially Archer) end the series by sacrificing themselves to end the temporal cold war and save the federation and all of humanity. In so doing, they would completely erase themselves from history, along with all the changes that the series has made to Trek. The only exception would be T'Pau's awareness at some level, that would fit in with Spock's Pon Farr episode, when Kirk comments on the rumor that T'Pau was the only Vulcan to serve on a Starfleet vessel. Hey Wes, can you forward this to Berman??
The only way to make Enterprise fit in with the ST universe without rewriting it as they have done would be to have the Ent crew sacrifice themselves from time to save humanity, erasing themselves from ever existing. This would be a bang up series finale and I have been waiting for it since they started. Would Bacula be offended if they did this?
Criticizing the technical aspects of the project is expected of course on slashdot. The use of existing technology to solve the problem was one of the impressive points, imho. Like that tweaked 486 that coyboy neal uses to run the slashdot journal. What the guy has acheived won't be apparent until some nerd in NY goes down to the Sonnabend Gallery and checks this out and reports back to all of us who can't get there. I think there would be a whole lot more respect for this if you experience the art first then learn that the technical details were solved by the creative application of existing technology. He hacked this system together to acheive this goal and the results are impressive. If anyone can get there, can you really stand there and get that "unbroken reality" that the artist was trying to create? Or is it just a big photo? Sort of like hearing a really good stereo system convince you that the piano is really in the room, you know it's position, it's boundaries, damn, you'd know the color if it wasn't invisible! Or the first video game good enough that when you finally stop, being yourself again feels weird. Just my two cents.
SCO Group executives have sold about 119,000 shares of their company since it filed a lawsuit against IBM in March and the stock price increased more than fourfold.
The company has accused IBM of illegally transferring software from the Unix operating system into Linux. SCO bought licensing rights to Unix in 1995 and is threatening to sue other companies that use Linux, which IBM backs as a cheaper alternative to Microsoft's Windows program.
Chief Financial Officer Robert Bench began the $1.2 million in executive share sales four days after Lindon -based SCO filed its lawsuit against Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM on March 6. Before Bench's sale, SCO insiders had not sold shares in more than a year, according to the Washington Service, a firm that tracks insider transactions.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, to be fair, most of the vaccines in question have had that mercury removed, but still. The notion of blindly trusting big pharm companies makes me a little nervous to say the least.
You're right about not trusting corp's to do anything but make money. And don't be so sure about those vaccines being mercury free:
http://www.whale.to/a/mercury7.html
----
During an investigation into the mercury issue, HAPI learned that
Thimerosal, a 50% mercury compound, is still being used to produce
most vaccines and that the manufacturers are simply "filtering it
out" of the final product. However, according to Boyd Haley, PhD,
Chemistry Department Chair, University of Kentucky, mercury binds to
the antigenic protein in the vaccine and cannot be completely, 100%
filtered out.
All four vaccine vials tested contained mercury despite manufacturer
claims that two of the vials were completely mercury free. All four
vials also contained aluminum, one nine times more than the other
three, which tremendously enhances the toxicity of mercury causing
neuronal death in the brain.
----
Autism Rates Drop After Mercury Removed From Childhood Vaccines
Mar 3rd, 2006
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/38784.php
An article in the March 10, 2006 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35%.
Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood NDs, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives. Authors David A. Geier, B.A. and Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D. analyze data from the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) in "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines."
The numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have skyrocketed to more than 1000 by the beginning of 2006. But in fact, the Geiers report that the number actually went down to only 620, a real decrease of 22%, and a decrease from the projections of 35%.
This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the CDC.
Google amish autism. There are a few Amish with autism. They have either been vaccinated or have elevated levels of mercury presumably from an environmental exposure. I am not against vaccination but facts like these carry more weight than "scientific" studies that are funded or at least influenced by drug companies. The difference is Science for profit vs Science for knowledge.
Puppy has also done a lot of optimizing for running on a USB stick, and it can handle encrypted partitions. Check it out: puppylinux.org
that is all
How about a graphics program that runs on OSX and doesn't require X11 or hundreds of dollars?
Cool, Capcha fortune tellers - mine said foolish
What I want to know is why can't you have
lego everything? House, furniture, computer.
It could all fit together and be the ultimate
in reconfigurability.
Imagine using this for cubicles!!
I'm glad they chose IBM to go after. IBM has the resources to defend against this shite.
They could have knocked out half a dozen distros just filing the complaint. Thanks, IBM.
I fixed this on my XP home sp2 machine by
deleting iexplorer.exe and quickly
creating a folder named iexplorer.exe
in it's place so Ms can't replace it.
Worked for me, no more popups,
and if I want IE, I run it from the
backup file.
q a z
we had what was called lunch tickets. You paid for a week, or got free luches from the state, and it got you a lunch based on the 4 food groups. If you wanted to buy extras, you paid cash. Now my kids get an account that I have to put money in and they can choose what to buy (mostly french fries because mmost cafeteria food is gross). I don't want to pay $3 for french fries and a sports drink formy kids, I want to buy them a lunch and they can choose what to eat. I think it's just scam to make money for the school. Last year, I got fed up and we bagged lunches.
Also, when I was a kid, there was no junk food or soda in school. About 10 years ago, pepsi/coke/et al started making sweet deals with schools to put pop machines in the lunch rooms. Now the school oficials are finally waking up to the fact that kids will eat junk if it's around. Duhhh!
Also, I think the recent obesity epidemic in the US, is caused or at least helped by the massive addition of high fructose corn sweetener introduced in almost all mass produced food. This cheapest of the cheap simple sugar (I'm speculating) spikes blood sugar then insulin levels causing low blood sugar and more eating.
q a z
Since the rdesign a few months back, the slashdot sight renders slowly, usually requiring multiple refreshes. This happens to me on XP, Mac, but not on Linux. Camino on OSX also doesn't show this. Anyone else notice this?
If we had followed Carter's incentive programs for alternative energy and conservation, maybe we wouldn't be so concerned with oil in the Middle East.
Pioneer 10 + 11 space missions: $500 million
Ancient 7- and 9-track magnetic tapes: $20 on ebay
Anomolies leading to the solution of the grand unified theory: Priceless!
Some things money can't buy!
I buy most of my DVDs used from CD warehouse.
Mostly, I scan the bargain bins and pick out
one or two that look interesting based on a few
seconds evaluation. When I want to watch something
at home, I look through my collection. The best is
finding a decent movie I didn't know I had.
My collection is diverse and full of lots of surprises (and duds).
This bittorrent thing looks good too though,
as soon as I upgrade my 486, I'm going to have
to try that out.
What if Apple made the mini with a no video card option, and there was an OS that would cluster these automatically?
Does ClusterKnoppix do this yet?
You could buy another one whenever you ran out of disk space and add processing power also.
Just a thought.
q a z
The coolest solution I've seen is the Bithead portable headphone amplifier and USB audio device: http://tinyurl.com/5293w/ It's got hi end D/A converters, audiophile parts thoughout, and goes for about $270. I want one, but I'm going the cheaper route: a $5 sound card with SPDIF output and an outboard D/A decoder that I have lying around. Grab a D/A on ebay: http://tinyurl.com/4nsws/ The Audio Alchemy units are great for the price! The airport express solution from apple is also worth looking into: http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
q a z
The only way that Enterprise can prevent itself from being
an abomination to the Trek universe that came before it,
is to have the Enterprise (especially Archer) end the series by
sacrificing themselves to end the temporal cold war and
save the federation and all of humanity. In so doing,
they would completely erase themselves from history, along with
all the changes that the series has made to Trek.
The only exception would be T'Pau's awareness at some level,
that would fit in with Spock's Pon Farr episode, when Kirk
comments on the rumor that T'Pau was the only Vulcan to serve
on a Starfleet vessel.
Hey Wes, can you forward this to Berman??
q a z
The only way to make Enterprise fit in with the ST universe without rewriting it as they have done would be to have the Ent crew sacrifice themselves from time to save humanity, erasing themselves from ever existing. This would be a bang up series finale and I have been waiting for it since they started.
Would Bacula be offended if they did this?
Criticizing the technical aspects of the project is expected of course on slashdot. The use of existing technology to solve the problem was one of the impressive points, imho. Like that tweaked 486 that coyboy neal uses to run the slashdot journal.
What the guy has acheived won't be apparent until some nerd in NY goes down to the Sonnabend Gallery and checks this out and reports back to all of us who can't get there. I think there would be a whole lot more respect for this if you experience the art first then learn that the technical details were solved by the creative application of existing technology. He hacked this system together to acheive this goal and the results are impressive.
If anyone can get there, can you really stand there and get that "unbroken reality" that the artist was trying to create? Or is it just a big photo?
Sort of like hearing a really good stereo system convince you that the piano is really in the room, you know it's position, it's boundaries, damn, you'd know the color if it wasn't invisible!
Or the first video game good enough that when you finally stop, being yourself again feels weird.
Just my two cents.
q a z
A wall street trader or a SCO executive:
s /8 3193.asp
SCO Group executives have sold about 119,000 shares of their company since it filed a lawsuit against IBM in March and the stock price increased more than fourfold.
The company has accused IBM of illegally transferring software from the Unix operating system into Linux. SCO bought licensing rights to Unix in 1995 and is threatening to sue other companies that use Linux, which IBM backs as a cheaper alternative to Microsoft's Windows program.
Chief Financial Officer Robert Bench began the $1.2 million in executive share sales four days after Lindon -based SCO filed its lawsuit against Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM on March 6. Before Bench's sale, SCO insiders had not sold shares in more than a year, according to the Washington Service, a firm that tracks insider transactions.
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08122003/busines